Otto F. Sankey

Otto F. Sankey publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Otto F. Sankey sits on this spectrum.

Otto F. Sankey D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Otto F. Sankey sits on this spectrum.

Research.com Recognitions

• 2000 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For developing realspace firstprinciples electronic structure methods with broad applications to materials problems

Overview

Best Publications

• Reproducible Measurement of Single-Molecule Conductivity

  X. D. Cui;A. Primak;A. Primak;X. Zarate;J. Tomfohr

  1757
  Citations

• Ab initio multicenter tight-binding model for molecular-dynamics simulations and other applications in covalent systems

  Otto F. Sankey;David J. Niklewski

  1739
  Citations

• Charge Transfer on the Nanoscale: Current Status

  David M. Adams;Louis Brus;Christopher E. D. Chidsey;Stephen Creager

  1289
  Citations

• Electronic structure approach for complex silicas.

  Alexander A. Demkov;José Ortega;Otto F. Sankey;Matthew P. Grumbach

  460
  Citations

• Making electrical contacts to molecular monolayers

  X. D. Cui;X. Zarate;J. Tomfohr;O. F. Sankey

  428
  Citations

• Changes in the Electronic Properties of a Molecule When It Is Wired into a Circuit

  X. D. Cui;A. Primak;A. Primak;X. Zarate;J. Tomfohr

  349
  Citations

• Low-density framework form of crystalline silicon with a wide optical band gap

  Jan Gryko;Jan Gryko;Paul F. McMillan;Robert F. Marzke;Ganesh K. Ramachandran

  345
  Citations

• Complex band structure, decay lengths, and Fermi level alignment in simple molecular electronic systems

  John K. Tomfohr;Otto F. Sankey

  333
  Citations

• Wide-band-gap Si in open fourfold-coordinated clathrate structures.

  Gary B. Adams;Michael Okeeffe;Alexander A Demkov;Otto F. Sankey

  330
  Citations

• Further developments in the local-orbital density-functional-theory tight-binding method

  James P. Lewis;Kurt R. Glaesemann;Gregory A. Voth;Jürgen Fritsch

  304
  Citations

• Multicenter approach to the exchange-correlation interactions in ab initio tight-binding methods

  Pavel Jelínek;Pavel Jelínek;Hao Wang;James P. Lewis;Otto F. Sankey

  295
  Citations

• Theoretical study of the lattice thermal conductivity in Ge framework semiconductors.

  Jianjun Dong;Jianjun Dong;Otto F. Sankey;Charles W. Myles

  283
  Citations

• Predicted new low energy forms of carbon.

  Michael O’Keeffe;Gary B. Adams;Otto F. Sankey

  271
  Citations

• Theoretical analysis of electron transport through organic molecules

  John Tomfohr;Otto F. Sankey

  256
  Citations

• Energetics of Large Fullerenes: Balls, Tubes, and Capsules

  Gary B. Adams;Otto F. Sankey;John B. Page;Michael O'Keeffe

  251
  Citations

• Electronic Signatures of all Four DNA Nucleosides in a Tunneling Gap

  Shuai Chang;Shuo Huang;Jin He;Feng Liang

  248
  Citations

• Deep energy levels of defects in the wurtzite semiconductors AIN, CdS, CdSe, ZnS, and ZnO

  Unknown

  234
  Citations

• Electronic decay constant of carotenoid polyenes from single-molecule measurements.

  Jin He;Fan Chen;Jun Li;Otto F. Sankey

  220
  Citations

• Switching of a photochromic molecule on gold electrodes: single-molecule measurements

  Jin He;Fan Chen;Paul A Liddell;Joakim Andréasson

  212
  Citations

• Molecular-dynamics determination of electronic and vibrational spectra, and equilibrium structures of small Si clusters.

  Otto F. Sankey;David J. Niklewski;D. A. Drabold;John D. Dow

  212
  Citations

• Maximum entropy approach for linear scaling in the electronic structure problem.

  David A. Drabold;Otto F. Sankey

  198
  Citations

• Semiempirical tight-binding band structures of wurtzite semiconductors: AlN, CdS, CdSe, ZnS, and ZnO

  Unknown

  167
  Citations